I love the image of "throwing forcefully at God" ALL (100% of) my concerns, worries, fears, knowing that He will take them and deal with them ... why? Because He is concerned about me and painstakingly watches over me! I don't need to carry the burden of fear that I will fail again at this healthy lifestyle thing, I don't need to worry that I will never again get to enjoy a sugar-laden dessert, I don't need to be concerned about where and when I will get to eat again (some days it's all I can think about). HE is deeply concerned about me and will provide everything that I need.
I still need to learn more restraint & self-discipline but I think maybe the biggest problem is that I'm relying on myself to be able to do rather than drawing on all the awesome power of God to help me! As Lysa says in chapter 5, we have all the POWER THAT RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD available to us, and yet we live life just barely scraping by, barely surviving, when all we have to do is access that Power and we can live in all the victory of His resurrection!
I'm trying to learn to be Vigilant, watchful, aware, attentive, observant, quick to notice any unusual and potentially dangerous or difficult circumstances so that I won't be caught off-guard, and fall into the trap that satan lays for me. He is ever vigilant, looking for every opportunity to throw me off my game and leave me feeling weak and defeated. I need to be just as vigilant, watching for his tricks and schemes so that I am prepared to meet them head-on and call on the Power of God to help me be victorious!
Father, my ABBA, thank you so much that You care for me. You are concerned about what concerns me, and and You painstaking watch over me. To be loved like this is more than I could ever ask for, and yet You give it freely. Thank You seems so inadequate.
Help me to learn to cast (fling, hurl) all (100%) of my cares, concerns, worries, fears, on You and allow You to deal with them.
Help me to learn to turn to You for the Power to be restrained, disciplined in my eating. Help me to run to You for the power to resist the temptations that satan places in my path. Help me to live VICTORIOUSLY in the Power that is available to me through You.
I want to succeed at this, I want to be victorious, I want to learn how to eat to live rather than living to eat.
Claiming Your Power in my life today, and knowing that You will help me. I love You, amen.
